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Bank donates 11,000 items to food bank

Special to the Democrat
Published 12:38 p.m. ET Nov. 18, 2015

Non-perishable food items collected at the Ameris Bank Tallahassee office, as part of the Sixth Annual Helping Fight Hunger campaign.(Photo: Special to the Chronicle)

Ameris Bank’s Sixth Annual Helping Fight Hunger campaign launched October 1 and came to a close at the end of last month. Locally, the Tallahassee community collected 11,344 non-perishable food items at the downtown Ameris Bank location, where collection boxes were on display. This year, all food items collected as well as a monetary donation of $1,341.56 will be given to America’s Second Harvest of the Big Bend. This comes after Ameris Bank partnered with Second Harvest in September during Hunger Action Month as a principal sponsor of Second Harvest’s 2K Club, which encouraged businesses to collect 1,000 pounds of food and match that with a $1,000 donation to feed families within the community. Ameris Bank contributed $2,500 to support Second Harvest's 2K Club campaign.

Last year, Ameris Bancorp, the parent company of Ameris Bank, collected over 760,000 non-perishable food items throughout its service area. This year, its goal to exceed that number was successful with over 845,000 items collected in total. These items, as well as a $100,000 donation from Ameris Bancorp, will be divided and distributed among local organizations related to helping fight hunger.

“We are so thrilled with this year’s results of the Helping Fight Hunger campaign. Each year, we hope to make an even bigger difference in the community than the year before and we are doing just that,” said Ameris Bank Tallahassee Market President Robert Vice. “Thank you to the community for helping us feed so many individuals right here at home.”